A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score [Enhanced] [Soundtrack]

a beautiful mind: original motion picture score [enhanced] [soundtrack]

On this CD:

    A Beautiful Mind, film score A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Playing A Game Of Go!
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Looking For The Next Great Idea
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Creating "Governing Dynamics"
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Cracking The Russian Codes
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Nash Descends Into Parcher's World
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score First Drop-Off, First Kiss
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score The Car Chase
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Real Or Imagined?
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Of One Heart, Of One Mind
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Saying Goodbye To Those You So Love
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Teaching Mathematics Again
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    A Beautiful Mind, film score The Prize of One's Life...The Prize of One's Mind
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

    All Love Can Be, song (from the film "A Beautiful Mind")
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner
    with Charlotte Church

    A Beautiful Mind, film score Closing Credits
    Composed by James Horner
    Performed by Randy Kerber, James Horner

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
This Ron Howard film parlays the troubled story of Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash Jr., a gifted Princeton mathematics professor tormented for decades by paranoid schizophrenia, into something considerably richer than typical Hollywood triumph-against-all-odds fare. Howard has teamed here again with frequent collaborator James Horner, and it's the composer who deftly shades the film's difficult emotional landscape and helps impart a compelling humanity. Horner's first task is not inconsiderable: musically portraying the arcane realm of mathematical theorems that are the story's backdrop. In doing so, the composer leans heavily on modern minimalist technique, bright flourishes that recur briefly throughout an orchestral score that increasingly reflects Nash's bleak inner landscape in its quietly somber and brooding tones. And while Horner has frequently been accused of excessively repeating himself in his scores, the neo-minimalist gambit employed on this reflectively pastoral, postmodernist soundscape neatly nips such criticism in the bud. Nash's triumph is ultimately an intensely personal one, well reflected in Welsh soprano Charlotte Church's lilting performance of the Horner/Will Jennings ballad "All Love Can Be." This enhanced CD also features notes by the director and composer, as well as exclusive photos and the film's trailer. --Jerry McCulley

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A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score [Enhanced] [Soundtrack]
A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Haven't I heard this before?
  • a beautiful score
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Haunting, lovely, majestic
  • Dark
 A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score
James Horner
Manufacturer: Decca U.S.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005TPFV
Release Date: 2001-12-11

Tracks:

  1. A Kaleidoscope Of Mathematics
  2. Playing A Game Of 'Go!'
  3. Looking For The Next Great Idea
  4. Creating 'Governing Dynamics'
  5. Cracking The Russian Codes
  6. Nash Descends Into Parcher's World
  7. First Drop Off. First Kiss
  8. The Car Chase
  9. Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World
  10. Real Or Imagined?
  11. Of One Heart, Of One Mind
  12. Saying Goodbye To Those You So Love
  13. Teaching Mathematics Again
  14. Prize of One's Life... The Prize of One's Mind
  15. All Love Can Be - Charlotte Church
  16. Closing Credits

Amazon.com

This Ron Howard film parlays the troubled story of Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash Jr., a gifted Princeton mathematics professor tormented for decades by paranoid schizophrenia, into something considerably richer than typical Hollywood triumph-against-all-odds fare. Howard has teamed here again with frequent collaborator James Horner, and it's the composer who deftly shades the film's difficult emotional landscape and helps impart a compelling humanity. Horner's first task is not inconsiderable: musically portraying the arcane realm of mathematical theorems that are the story's backdrop. In doing so, the composer leans heavily on modern minimalist technique, bright flourishes that recur briefly throughout an orchestral score that increasingly reflects Nash's bleak inner landscape in its quietly somber and brooding tones. And while Horner has frequently been accused of excessively repeating himself in his scores, the neo-minimalist gambit employed on this reflectively pastoral, postmodernist soundscape neatly nips such criticism in the bud. Nash's triumph is ultimately an intensely personal one, well reflected in Welsh soprano Charlotte Church's lilting performance of the Horner/Will Jennings ballad "All Love Can Be." This enhanced CD also features notes by the director and composer, as well as exclusive photos and the film's trailer. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Haven't I heard this before?.......2007-06-20

As other reviewers will tell you yes this is another Horner machine made soundtrack. But it still sounds good! If you are a Horner fan by all means buy it otherwise "at your own risk"!

And another thing that gets me is no one even bothered to mention "Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World" I happened to like this one this is the song that plays when he is in the hospital.

5 out of 5 stars a beautiful score.......2007-02-09



James Horner's soundtrack for A BEAUTIFUL MIND is as psychologically intense as the film it so effectively embellishes.

Charlotte Church provides an appropriately eerie and largely non-verbal soprano to this remarkable motion picture score, yet one that would seem only quirky were it not so beautifully embedded in a musical stream that draws one inexorably and almost vicariously into the emotional turbulence of the Princeton mathematician John Nash.

There is an angelic nature to the shape and texture of this music, one that is able to turn demonic as the story line requires. Both by brilliance and by dementia, Nash seems the object of external forces, rising with supreme heroism (at least in the film's version of events) to conquer. The music is there at each score, coaxing the viewer into empathic solidarity with this deeply troubled man and his long-suffering and preternaturally beautiful wife.

This is mood music of the deeply engaging variety. Its lush tonal landscape is achieved under the baton of the composer himself. The score's vast range of volume and expression would certainly have made it a joy to watch in performance.

Alas, we don't have that.

But we have this.

An ethereal, compelling, even gripping tone poem. Buy it.

5 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Mind.......2006-08-09

Absolutely gorgeous - my husband keeps it in his car and listens to it whenever he's driving.

5 out of 5 stars Haunting, lovely, majestic.......2006-04-04

The sound track for "A Beautiful Mind" stayed with me long after the movie. The CD has all the themes that made the movie so emotionally powerfull. James Horner, composer and conductor, perfectly matches the excitement of genius and the terror of mental disability. Charlotte Church's clear and gentle voice compliments the music and used instrumentally creates a haunting refrain. I loved the movie and this music is wonderful.

5 out of 5 stars Dark.......2006-02-20

This is one of the darkest and most emotional soundtrack, and yet it is filled with more inspiring songs.
Best soundtrack ive ever heard.

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